Mary
Mary stands at #125 nationally in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. The peak was 1921, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Mary carries
Mary · Hebrew
“bitter”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Mary’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Mary, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Mary since 1880
Mary peaked in 1921 at #1; #125 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Mary is most common
Mary is most common in Alabama: 0.85% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Mississippi (0.8%) and Arkansas (0.46%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Mary
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Miriam
#246 in 2025 · Hebrew
Eva
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
Anna
#107 in 2025 · Hebrew
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ruth
#173 in 2025 · Hebrew
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Mary
Where does Mary rank right now?
Mary stands at #125 nationally in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Mary mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “bitter”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Mary?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Miriam sits closest, with Eva and Anna just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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